04 February 2009
Said Tahlil Ahmed
Shooting
Gunmen shot dead the head of private media house HornAfrik in Mogadishu.
Said Tahlil Ahmed was killed in Mogadishu's Bakara market, which is often a battleground for government soldiers and Islamist insurgents, witnesses and colleagues said.
"Two masked men armed with pistols turned into an alley and shot our friend Said dead," a local reporter, who was with him, told Reuters, asking not to be named.
"They shot him several times in the heart and he died on the spot. We ran away for our lives as they kept shooting."
